In IT, each autumn brings with itself something new, after the dry
summer period, which is generally shunned when new products are to be
presented, since much of it goes “under the radar”. Well, AMD certainly
is trying to make this autumn noticeable, marking the upcoming period
with its Radeon series. Having in mind the blow struck to the HD series
at the very beginning, with the HD 2000 series’ cards, few would expect
the following four generations to have fared so well. Since HD 3000
upwards, everything has been back on track, and now we have Radeons from
the HD 6000 series on our testing desks...

"Stone Giant is a DirectX 11 demo produced by Fatshark in collaboration with BitSquid using BitSquid Tech. It has primarily been developed to test the BitSquid tools and technology in a real-world production environment. The demo showcases how DX11 hardware tessellation can be used to achieve a high level of geometry detail in close-up shots. For users lacking a DX11 compatible GPU the demo also supports a DX10 fallback path with tessellation disabled.